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Trump budget: $800 billion in Medicaid cuts

fmw said:
Yes reducing future spending is cutting costs. But the proposed budget doesn't reduce future spending. It simply increases it less than you would like.
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Oh for ****'s sake. You are a complete waste of time.
 
fmw said:
I agree. CNN is a lying snake. The proposed budget actually increases Medicaid spending on the base line. It just just doesn't increase it as much as the base line predictions put spending 10 years from now. In other words it isn't a cut. It uses a base line that is less than democrats want.
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The millions of people the GOP is going to throw out of the program and into the ranks of the uninsured will surely be relieved to hear that.
 
Greenbeard said:
The millions of people the GOP is going to throw out of the program and into the ranks of the uninsured will surely be relieved to hear that.
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No one is being thrown out. According to the CBO report, people would choose not to buy insurance because they would no longer be forced to, or given it for 'free'.
 
jonny5 said:
No one is being thrown out. According to the CBO report, people would choose not to buy insurance because they would no longer be forced to, or given it for 'free'.
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Saying people won't be "given [Medicaid] for 'free'" is the same thing as saying they're being thrown off it. That's what that means. The GOP's funding cuts result in fewer people being enrolled under the program.

As for people with private commercial insurance, which is what you seem to actually be talking about here, the CBO explicitly says fewer people will be insured because they'll be priced out of their coverage by higher premiums and out-of-pocket spending.

Community-rated premiums would rise over time, and people who are less healthy (including those with preexisting or newly acquired medical conditions) would ultimately be unable to purchase comprehensive nongroup health insurance at premiums comparable to those under current law, if they could purchase it at all—despite the additional funding that would be available under H.R. 1628 to help reduce premiums. As a result, the nongroup markets in those states would become unstable for people with higher-than-average expected health care costs. That instability would cause some people who would have been insured in the nongroup market under current law to be uninsured.
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Over time, it would become more difficult for less healthy people (including people with preexisting medical conditions) in those states to purchase insurance because their premiums would continue to increase rapidly.
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People living in states modifying the EHBs who used services or benefits no longer included in the EHBs would experience substantial increases in out-of-pocket spending on health care or would choose to forgo the services.
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Although the agencies expect that the legislation would increase the number of uninsured broadly, the increase would be disproportionately larger among older people with lower income—particularly people between 50 and 64 years old with income of less than 200 percent of the federal poverty level . . . For older people with lower income, net premiums would be much larger than under current law, on average.
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Seven years they had to produce this garbage.
 
Greenbeard said:
Saying people won't be "given [Medicaid] for 'free'" is the same thing as saying they're being thrown off it. That's what that means. The GOP's funding cuts result in fewer people being enrolled under the program.

As for people with private commercial insurance, which is what you seem to actually be talking about here, the CBO explicitly says fewer people will be insured because they'll be priced out of their coverage by higher premiums and out-of-pocket spending.

ge.
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Yeah thats what I said, getting rid of the subsidies, people are choosing to buy sneakers instead of health insurance. They arent being thrown off.
 
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